Makarov, Nikolay Vitalievich

In 1974 he entered the Tula Polytechnic Institute , which he graduated in 1979 with a degree in civil engineering. He was a member of the Garden created at the Institute of Amateur Film Studio. In 1980, together with Sergei Selyanov, he secretly shot the full-length film “ Angel Day ” based on the story of the same name by Mikhail Konovalchuk. Film development, editing and sounding lasted for many years. A film copy was printed only in 1987 ^[1] . It was the only feature film then shot outside the official filmmaking system. On the screen, "Angel Day" was released in 1988.

In 1981, Nikolai Makarov entered the directing department of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (workshop of Victor Lisakovich ), which he graduated in 1986 ^[2] .

In 1987, at the Lennauchfilm film studio, he shot the documentary film "The sea spread wide ...", dedicated to the tragic fate of villages flooded by the Rybinsk reservoir . The critic Andrei Nuikin wrote about this work ^[3] :

As we have always proudly enumerated the “great constructions of communism”, the watts and kilowatts gained as a result of our heroic efforts! In this film, a small part of the evidence is collected, how, due to what we got these watts, using the example of one of the very first victorious Stalinist construction projects - the construction of the Rybinsk Hydroelectric Power Station and the Rybinsk Reservoir.

Since then, ecology , history and ethnography have been the main directions of the work of Nikolai Makarov. Many of his films were awarded prizes at international and Russian film festivals. In 2005, the director returned to the topic of his debut, making the film "The Sea Spreads Wide, or Time to Collect Stones."

Nikolai Makarov - a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia , a member of the Guild of Directors of Russia, a member of the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio.

From 2001 to 2014 - Associate Professor at the Department of Directing, Television Directing and TV Journalism of St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television .

Since 2012 - Associate Professor, and since 2015 - Head of the Department of Film and Photo Art of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture.

• 1986 - Earth and Water
• 1987 - "The sea is spread wide ..."
• 1988 - "Day of the Angel" (play, together with S. Selyanov)
• 1989 - “Optina Deserts (Abode by the River)”
• 1991 - "The riddle of Seraphim" (fiction)
• 1992 - "The Elder (Fragments of the Life of Seraphim)" (game)
• 1993 - “The Life and Death of Alexander Sidelnikov, Film Director”
• 1998 - “Nicholas II. Circle of Life ”(director of the 3rd series)
• 1999 - “Russian Courier” (a series of television programs)
• 1999 - Family of the Blind
• 2000 - “In the wake of Rodion Raskolnikov”
• 2002 - Evgeny Yevtushenko
• 2004 - We Are Deaf
• 2005 - “The sea is spread wide ... or Time to collect stones”
• 2006 - "Acting Dynasty" (TV show cycle)
• 2007 - “Two or three things that would be nice to know about her ...”
• 2007 - “Religious Petersburg. The connection of time "
• 2011 - “Faces of Russia” (television movie cycle)
• 2011 - "Ingush Monolith"
• 2013 - Journey to the Southern Selkups